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SSX on Tour for PlayStation Portable
SSX on Tour for PlayStation Portable combines snowboarding and skiing with fast descents and huge jumps. You create your own winter sports rider and work your way up through competitions on snowy mountain slopes. One challenge demands the fastest time, while elsewhere you collect points with tricks. Ramps, rails and corners determine the route you choose. Preparing a jump properly gives you more time for spins and grabs. A controlled landing makes the difference between a successful combination and a fall that takes away your speed.
The Tour groups events by competition type and whether they use skis or a snowboard. This means you switch between both rather than choosing one sport for your entire career. Winning events helps you climb the rankings and opens up new possibilities. Tricks also earn boost, letting you regain speed after landing. The exaggerated Monster Tricks fit the arcade approach: this winter sports game revolves around jumps and combinations that go far beyond an ordinary descent. Drawn menus and rock music give the competitions their own style.
You can complete the Tour alone or play individual challenges. There are also local ad hoc events for two to four players. Each participant needs their own PSP with wireless networking and their own copy of SSX on Tour. The game does not support Game Sharing with a single shared UMD. These events connect systems directly in the same area; no additional PSP or game is included.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
SSX on Tour for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of SSX on Tour
SSX on Tour appeared in 2005 under Electronic Arts' EA Sports BIG label. Earlier entries such as SSX Tricky and SSX 3 had focused the series on snowboard races where speed and acrobatics complement each other. On Tour expanded that foundation with skiing and placed greater emphasis on creating your own rider and working your way up. Its presentation changed too: sketches, bold lettering and rock music replaced the atmosphere of an ordinary sports broadcast. The menus and competitions thus shared the same emphasis on building your own reputation.
EA Montreal worked on a separate handheld release for PSP alongside EA Canada's work on the home console versions. The portable Tour organises its challenges differently and lets you use skis or a snowboard according to the event. Character customisation is more limited than on the home consoles. At the same time, the PSP version retained the combination of races, time trials and point-scoring events. These design choices fit short competitions selected from a menu, without first having to travel across a large mountain world to each next challenge.
SSX's arrival on PSP made the mountain sports series playable on Sony's handheld system for the first time. Wireless races provided a different way of descending together from the shared television screen of the home consoles. The PSP release nevertheless remained its own version: the GameCube's Nintendo guest characters are not included here. Nor do later SSX games on other hardware add anything to this UMD. On PSP, On Tour preserves the combination of skiing, snowboarding, progression through events and direct local competition.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Shaun White Snowboarding on PSP likewise brings together mountain slopes, jumps and snowboarding challenges. The PSP release awards points for speed, tricks, sliding and carving, and lets you develop your rider's attributes. SSX on Tour adds skiing as a second discipline and strongly emphasises exaggerated Monster Tricks. In both, you look for routes and link actions, but SSX also changes which sports equipment an event requires during the Tour.
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix on PSP also lets you chain tricks, use rails and complete challenges with your own rider. You ride a skateboard through cities, including extra PSP locations such as Kyoto and Santa Cruz. SSX on Tour lets the descent and gravity dictate the pace. You do not need to find a street route to the next trick spot: the mountain carries you past jumps and corners as you keep building speed.
Dave Mirra BMX Challenge on PSP also combines races with events in which tricks earn points. There, you ride a BMX bike through environments with ramps and obstacles rather than travelling through snow on skis or a snowboard. Both ask you to coordinate your approach, jump and landing. SSX on Tour links these actions to a downhill run with boost, while the BMX events start from riding and manoeuvring a bicycle.
Burnout Legends on PSP may at first seem like a different sort of sport, but, like SSX on Tour, it links risk-taking to extra speed. In Burnout, dangerous driving fills your boost and you try to eliminate rivals with Takedowns. In SSX, acrobatic jumps provide the fuel for a faster descent. Burnout centres on traffic and collisions, while SSX uses space, height and a good landing to change a race or points score.
WipEout Pure on PSP also asks you to learn corners and maintain speed over a course with changes in elevation. Its vehicles hover above futuristic tracks and can collect weapons to hinder rivals. SSX on Tour instead has you leave the ground to perform tricks and land safely on skis or a board. Both reward track knowledge, but SSX makes your rider's movements and scoring during jumps a separate part of competition.
